Grinding is valid Scrabble Word

Is grinding a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is grinding valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for GRINDING in dictionary:

VERB:

reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it
sharpen, smooth, or produce (something) by crushing or by friction
operate (a mill or machine) by turning the handle
(of a mill or machine) work with a crushing action
rub or cause to rub together gratingly
press or rub (something) into a surface
move noisily and laboriously
(of a dancer) gyrate the hips erotically
have sexual intercourse.

NOUN:

the act of grinding

a crushing or grating sound or motion
the size of ground particles
hard dull work
an excessively hard-working student.
a private tuition class
an act of sexual intercourse.
from Grind.
material resulting from the process of grinding
a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)
the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
a dancer's erotic gyration of the hips

ADJECTIVE:

of poverty, very severe

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to wear, smooth, or sharpen by friction

Words related to GRINDING

grind7 grinded10 grindingly16 grinds8 ground8

Words that contain GRINDING

grindings12 grindingly16 regrinding13

How to use GRINDING in a sentence

A compact mass of ice, three-quarters of a mile wide and four miles long, with a great grinding and crushing went down the valley.
It is there that the dreadful shells have entered, breaking, grinding furniture, pictures, glasses, and even human beings.
Duane could not help grinding his teeth at the thought of rustlers living there in quiet and ease.
She said that she was a handmaid used to grinding at the mill.
She heard his great feet grinding on the board flooring.
The only sound was the grinding of the heavy boots in front, and the bustle of the passage of such a crowd along so narrow a way.
The most grinding spiritual tyranny ever known has been erected on this foundation.
Stephen and his party did not find any pottery fragments, nor flint flakes, nor grinding stones.
The Indians throw the seeds away, but boil the fruit, grinding it between stones and mixing it with water.
But Wansutis, letting fall the stone with which she was grinding maize, looked up suddenly as if she heard distant voices.

All about us the ice was plunging and grinding along and piling itself up in mountains on the shore, and the dangers were increasing, not diminishing.
It rolled back with a grinding sound, and Floyd feared, for a moment that he had loosened it so that it would topple back and fall upon his feet.
With one hand grinding his tablet of ink, with one eye watching Jimbei, he saw him disappear into the bushes.
There was a grinding noise as the shoes took hold on the wheels.
Suddenly there came a terrible crash, a grinding sound and a rending and tearing.
The mill was grinding with a shuddering noise which covered all country night sounds.
Further and further into the blackness we went, our shoes grinding into the coarse salt mixed with dirt, and the dampness smelling like the spray from the sea.
Do you remember making imitation or substitute coffee by grinding up corn or peanuts? No.
Some attended to the grinding machine, the roar and clatter of which made it possible for Tom and the others to talk and move about without being overheard.
In the manufacture of sugar from the cane, considerable improvement has been effected by the introduction of new methods of boiling and grinding.
After a while she was awakened suddenly, for the chest was jarring and grinding, and the air was full of sound.
The terrible noise, the grinding, whirling, pounding, the gigantic burr renders other senses keen.
She could hear him grinding his teeth as he sat close to her.
It was in the grinding and polishing of their lenses that the Clarks surpassed all men.
The people will be unable to pay the grinding taxes which a fanatical spirit will attempt to impose upon them.

Similar words containing GRIND without suffix ing

grind7 grinds8 grinded10 grinder9 regrind9 grinders10 grindery13 regrinds10 grindelia11 grindings12 grindelias12 grinderies12 grindhouse15 grindingly16 grindstone12 regrinding13 grindhouses16 grindstones13

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